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You should always backup unless you don't mind losing what you have :wink: That is good advice. But it seems odd that you lost your mozilla profile. When i have upgraded my profile always remains, i have never reinstalled though. Have you looked through the /home/your_username/.mozilla directory mozilla may have created another profile for you, your bookmarks are kept in a file called bookmarks.html(i know it's amazing :P ).

It happens because you can only have one instance of mozilla running at the same time in linux for a single user. using CTRL+N or File->New->Navigator Window only opens another mozilla window it doesn't create a new instance of the mozilla program so if you had a signal 11 crash in a mozilla window all open windows of mozilla would crash. If you happened to open a console and su'ed, if you typed mozilla it would open a new instance of mozilla as user root so it would use root's profile so if you had a signal 11 crash in the user instance of mozilla only windows opened as that user would crash, the root windows would remain. Why they have made it like this? i don't know, i am after all an idiot. :D

Open up a file manager in superuser mode create a directory where you want your game to go. I use /home/games/quake3 as my home partition has lots of space, the install takes 300+ mb if i recall correctly so you need at least that much free space. Within the qake3 directory create another directory called baseq3 eg /home/games/quake3/baseq3 I will assume that you use the same directory as i suggest from here on ok now you need to insert your quake3 cd, use the filemanager in superuser mode to access the cd, it should be /mnt/cdrom/ copy the file /mnt/cdrom/Quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 to your /home/games/quake3/baseq3 directory or you could do this in a console window as su by typing: cp /mnt/cdrom/Quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 /home/games/quake3/baseq3/ You then need to download the id point release for linux current version is 1.32b i think about 30mb once downloaded rightclick on the file and in the permissions tab, select exec for user and group. exit the properties dialog as root eg in a console window type su then enter the root password. go to the directory where you downloaded the point release type ./name_of_the_pointrelease_file then press enter (a tip, if you do a "dir" of the directory first you can copy the file name by holding down the left mouse button and dragging over the filename then releasing the mouse button. type ./ at the prompt then press the middle mouse button to paste the file name there) The id setup program will come up you need to change the install path to /home/games/quake3 run the installer. once finished close the installer and type exit in the console to leave su mode. type quake3 to play DOlson has a info on his site for this http://mdkxp.by-a.com/htm/articlelist.php look under the game listing Happy fragging i hope :D

Ahh damn you beat me to it :D Oh well YAY!!! anyway, I hope, will install tonight.

ADSL or cable or something faster thats what you need man. If i had to go back to 56k i would cry seriously :) Not that my connection is great or anything, just 128/128 dsl but as i play alot of online games my ping being 30-60 adsl compared to 200+ on 56k i would never want to go back ever. Still some people can't get it because of geography in New Zealand & other backwater countries :wink: And why would you need 2 modems anyway? connection and fax/answerphone?

It's a little bit that and a lot more to do with the fact that consple coders only work with one system, all PS2's are basically the same. Pc's on the other hand have many many many different configurations, developers just cant test every possible hardware setup. Still it's good to have a bitch at someone now and again heh :D

I have used MLdonkey which accessess that network but i never found it to be that good, never got decent file transfer speeds like i do on the dc hubs, but i do recall that it was quicker to search across hubs than dc. What is good for me is that there are NZ only dc hubs as I can only download/upload 5gig international but unlimited national so i can stay in a NZ only hub and not go over my limit. Not that i download my limit every month :wink:

Oh that version is alot newer than my version i wonder what has changed. I have a nvidia card, but the website mentions nothing about needed nvidia. Check out this link http://dcgui.berlios.de/forum/viewtopic.ph...ght=libglcore+1 apparently installing with --nodeps works.

I didn't see any refs to adding images to the document so i did some looking Here is your example with an image inserted as a figure. I found i was only able to get it to work using a .eps image format, you can convert .png .bmp etc to .eps with image magic. just type: "convert imagename.png imagename.eps" //so simple change file names and extensions to suit your case. place the image in the directory where you have the text file you are going to convert with latex you could put the image somewhere else, but you would have to define the path so if you want to do that refer to the 2 links further on. Ok so here is the modified example, modifications in red. % The document class documentclass[12pt, titlepage]{article} % Need to specify this package to use graphics in you document usepackage{graphics,epsfig} % The Author author{MoonChild} % The title of the paper title{Introduction to latex} % Date of Completition date{December 8$^{th}$ 2002} % Start my Document here begin{document} % Create the title (titlepage in this case) maketitle % This is my introduction stuff section*{Introduction} This is the First Paragraph. Of course, this is the second. % I create a different section for the body of my document section*{Main arguementation} One more paragrapg. And one more yet again. Here is a picture. % Create a figure, the [h] means place here in the document, you can use b - bottom of page, % t -top of page, or p - seperate page of figures begin{figure}[h] % center the picture begin{center} % Put in a picture but resize it to 40mm X 40mm (only way i found to resize thats works). % The includegraphics{tux.eps} the pic is tux.eps resizebox{40mm}{40mm}{includegraphics{tux}} % Ok we have finished centering the graphic end{center} % Put a caption for the figure, {Fig:figX} gives you Fig: and the figure number, If it's the first % figure, figX will be 1 caption{Enter some descriptions}label{Fig:figX} % end of the figure end{figure} % My conclusion will have its own section section*{Conclusion} Here is my conclusion. Use Latex! % Obviously, finish my document end{document} The following links contain info on using images. http://www.maths.lth.se/help/latex/graphics/ http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~jlin/latex_help.htm

use dcgui, you will find stuff, lots of stuff to download seriously. http://dc.ketelhot.de/ I have been using it for ages the best file sharing app i have found for linux by a large margin. And i have tried everything, direct connect was my favorite filesharing method when i used windows so that was a bonus. There are usually rpms in the cooker i think, i know plf has them, if you have set plf/textar/cooker(u know the usual :) ) in urpmi you should just need to. su then urpmi dcgui Stating the obvious of course (it's my specialty you know :P )

Thanks for the info, sounds pretty usefull. I like the sound of the pdflatex, currently i use Openoffice to convert writer docs to pdf. Use it for making technical data sheets and Material safety data sheets at my work, latex sounds ideal for that sort of thing. I have just had a play with it, looks damn good :!: Will definately need to investigate further.

What is the F/H? I think that is Fan/Heatsink maybe? Power supplies give some funny problems, usually freezes, spontaneous restarts, not starting sometimes when power button pushed, the symptoms usually get worse over time as the psu dies. Haven't seen memory errors relating to a faulty psu though. What you can do to test a psu is to run a program that uses the hdd and the cpu alot, tends to bring out the worst in a bad psu quickly.

I use dx4 which is gui, and wget which is console I like wget the best but thats just me.

Thats cool, don't have to go from site to site now, all in one place 8) cheers

I don't have any experience with cable, but i know if you are uploading at your max rate or close too it your download speed drops to practically nothing, this is certainly the case with adsl. It's because you need to send some packets to download packets. You need to limit your upload speed, say to 80% of it's max, that should fix your problem. What & how are you uploading?

Heres mine So it definately helps you frame rate when the display is covered by the console 6000 vs 18000 It's just a pity you can't run games like that :P [john@bobs john]$ glxgears 30135 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6027.000 FPS 30149 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6029.800 FPS 30072 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6014.400 FPS 88754 frames in 5.0 seconds = 17750.800 FPS 93472 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18694.400 FPS 93370 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18674.000 FPS 93478 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18695.600 FPS 93450 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18690.000 FPS 93377 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18675.400 FPS 93517 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18703.400 FPS X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). [john@bobs john]$

It is not, the report is just stating something that is very obvious. Maybe it was a slow news day, and they needed something to fill some space.

first 5 right (and i actually new them :shock: ) second 2 wrong. Games made before i was born don't count :P I would say im a noob, now if they were M$ questions you would get a MSCE for that :D

I don't see the problem. Anyway my main is a Mandrake 9.0 dual boot win98SE though i just cant stand to boot into windows anymore even to play all my many games. I have a secondary Mandrake 9.0 that i can play games on, and i use for a developement box mainly for apache/mysql/php. It's good to have a spare with internet access if you screw something up on your primary. I have a old p200 with mandrake 8.1 on it, i had used it as a gateway/proxy/firewall. I would like to make it into a bridging firewall at some point.

LMAO!!!! Does this guy actually get paid to come out with statements like that? And how many years of university does this guy have? If i gave sally 1/4 of my pie then there would only be 3/4 of the pie left, now repeat after me; a,b,c,d,e,f,g... :D

game runs fine, no crashes, nice graphics. Bloody hell, its a 3d doom/duke nukem. Non stop killing aliens. Oh well at least it has a story.... sort of :D Thanks for the info DOlson.

well i got the game and the installer worked fine. started to play but stargate came on tv, so i will have a go now and see how it goes

Star control 2 was a really fun game, i would like to play it again if it was availible on linux do you have a link?. I found this /******************************************************************************** *************/ Star Control 2 Port - - [posted by AlKini] Toys for Bob has announced that they will be releasing a new port of Star Control 2. Here's the official announcement: Toys for Bob is pleased to announce that we will be re-releasing "The Ur-Quan Masters", for modern operating systems. We will be using the 3DO version as our starting point, and although we don't have all the details worked out, just yet, we can share with you some of our goals (many of which were suggested by fans of the game. Thanks!): * We plan to support Mac (both classic and OSX), Linux, and Windows. * The game will be available free of charge. * Players will be able to choose between text and voices. * We're looking into the possibility of allowing for independant creation of language plug-ins. * Data, such as graphics, fonts, music, voices, sound effects, and the script will be loaded from standard filetypes. This will allow fans to choose between classic music and 3DO music, or even import their own modifications into the game. * Improved support for modern gamepads. * We're looking into 2-player supermelee over the internet... Cross your fingers! This list is by no means complete, and we'll continue to release more information as it becomes available. If you have any comments, we'd love to hear from you, and we'll be checking the comments at http://www.star-control.com/ on a regular basis. Looking through the past news at star-control.com, it looks like the port will be using SDL, but just over a week ago TFB was asking for feedback on how well SDL worked. If any of you SDL coders have some advice for the TFB team, head on over to the forum regarding SDL and SC2. Thanks, Judecca, for pointing this out. /******************************************************************************** *************************/ <edit> Found the source forge page http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ </edit> Serious sam, i never considered it but as it only costs like $20 NZ($9 US) i will buy it just to have another game under linux.

Whats wrong with gigabyte? I use a Gigabyte GA7VRX(via333), works great The current is the GA7VA(via400) don't know how that works out. Gigabyte is usually right up there with the ASUS boards in the hardware sites and they are alot cheaper. I have also had good experiences with Soltek boards.

Postfix is the mandrake default. It's really good, much easier than sendmail IMO.